aliasJess
pronounsShe/Her
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Don't mind me not actually knowing how to use PB anymore...so we're just winging it. I'm pretty frank with this in my intro's, but this is accurate. My personal list is typically: - Ship plots or family dynamic plots (they rank similarly, and there's been times I have prioritized family ones over ship ones)
- Friendly threads with dramaz (I need the sparkle emoji from discord ;-; )
- Misc threads that have drama (maybe not a thread between 2 chars that are friends, just a thread with a lot going on and we're seeing what happens with our chars)
- General friendly threads
- Everything else
Sometimes, depending on my partner and the thread, I'll shift things around based on my muse, but that's the rough outline for me.
I've never understood people who only reply in "order of received". Some people respond fine with that, but sometimes they get stuck on one post, which slows the rest of their responses to other people. Like I get it's how they ensure everyone gets responses, but its one of them things where I just believe everyone should just reply to what they have the muse for and then for threads they're stuck on, save them for last. Sometimes you need to get your muse out for those other threads before you can pump out something for a thread you're less excited for. Again, that's just my thoughts, and I understand everyone is different. I say this knowing I've probably accidentally trapped people in that box before. It happens.
Tacking on to this...if someone is a known site hopper who typically won't stick around for longer than a month, I am really hesitant to even plot with them. Life happens, sure, but if they're someone who's on every site that opens and then they dip a few weeks later for whatever reason - every single time - then I really have no faith in them to stick around, and when they leave it feels like I wasted my time.
If I don't know a person, I look at: how are you posting with other people, how are you interacting with them, are you active in the discord? I like people who are around, ya know? Doesn't have to be all the time or even daily, just in general, when you have time. I know discord's a hot topic, but I like it more than posting on plot threads (I always forget to check these, and I am good at ignoring the alerts) or in chat boxes. It feels like people tend to be closer now than they did years and years ago. Though, that of course opens room for more drama. :x I feel like I get more plots and interest in threads and wanted ads now then I did way back when though.
I've had people absolutely ghost me on plots and threads / change plots without discussing with me, and truly it sucks. So I'm big about this. I'm fine with things not going as we planned, I'm fine with dropping them, but all parties should be involved in that knowledge, I shouldn't find out from another person or from the "plot area" of discord. If your character goes a diff direction ICly and you're just going with the flow, that's absolutely fine, stay true to your character, but it leaves a sour taste when you're not involving the other party, makes me hesitant to plot / thread with that partner again.
Likewise, I've had people talk great to my face, and then after drama hits (on their end, I'm just here...and they leave the site), I get screenshots of things said via PMs to other members where they're talking trash about the plots or the characters involved. This falls back onto if you're not feeling a plot or characters together, just be up front about it, don't force it. Someone coming up and saying "hey I know we discussed this, but I don't think I'm feeling it right now" is such a green flag. I think I get this?
EX: Say you rescued a cat from a tree with character A in another thread, and now you're raising the cat together. While you're in a thread with character B, you get to discussing cats, and you tell character B about the cat you and character A rescued and how you're raising it together. Maybe how you're sharing the responsibilities, the cat is now a cat with two homes and goes back and forth, whatever. Which now opens up character B to have opinions on character A. Perhaps names were dropped and in the future if char A and char B meet, character B might recognize that name and they have a starting point of discussion possibly?
If so, this is def great. Love this. It opens up room for plotting with characters that might typically never interact with one another. Usually when I name drop, I ping the RPer of the other char in the plotting channel and link them to the thread with a tl;dr of what is happening since not everyone likes reading other people's threads.
Okay that's all I got in response to the above / adding on. Tata.
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last edit on Aug 21, 2023 15:53:17 GMT by jess
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